Avoidant Attachment

Avoidant attachment style is characterized by a pattern of behavior where individuals avoid intimacy and emotional closeness, often stemming from early experiences with emotionally unavailable or dismissive caregivers.

It had been 3 years since Marble hornets ended.
3 long years that has been spent trying to move on, no matter how many times the past forced itself back into Tim's life.
One year of Tim's mourning. One year of Tim trying to pretend and dissociate the way he had before. One year of Brian plotting to get him back.
Two years of them plotting together, gaining connections they would have never made otherwise and yearning for the day they would never have to face an empty face ever again.

Three years, and then a familiar figure finds his way back to them.
So why is it that he avoids them both like the plague?